RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

Exxxtrañas Amazonas is a “Martian operetta”: a remake of sorts of the sixties Mexican science fiction film Blue Demon against the women invaders. This excessively bad (and thus wonderfully prodigious) film, is reinterpreted both on video and live by three Colombian transvestites who become the lead characters in the story. The audience watches the projected reconstructed film, which is in dialogue with cabaret numbers that the transvestites perform for them live. This experimental cinema-cabaret piece brings together Mapa Teatro’s aesthetic and political preoccupations, framed within specific questions on the meeting of two popular cultures, such as that of Colombia and Mexico, which are so highly representative in Latin America. 

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MAPA TEATRO

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Mapa Teatro is an Artists laboratory dedicated to trans-disciplinary creation. Based in Bogota since 1986, Mapa Teatro was founded in Paris in 1984 by Heidi, Elizabeth and Rolf Abderhalden, theatre and visual artists from Colombia. Since its inception, Mapa Teatro has built a cartography within the milieu of the Live Arts, a propitious space for transgressing - geographic, linguistic, artistic – boundaries, and for staging local and global issues through various “thought-montage” operations. A space of migration, were myth, history and topicality exist continuously; intimate and public spheres; artistic languages (theatre, opera, cabaret, radio, sound and video installations, urban interventions, actions and performatic conferences); authors and epochs (Aeschylus, Müller, Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Antonio Rodriguez, Händl Klaus); geographies and languages (La Noche/Nuit in French and Spanish; West Dock in Russian, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings in Tamil; De Mortibus in English, Spanish and French; voice, image and movement (4:48 Psychosis, Simply Complicated); memory and city (Project Prometheus, The Cleaning of Augias Stables, Witness to the Ruins, Cartographies in Motion); voice, music and live electronics (Simply Complicated, Love Story, The Magic Flute, Orpheus) simulation and reality (Exxxtrañas Amazonas, Trans/positions); document and fiction, poetics and politics (Horatio, The Holy Innocents, Discourse of a Decent Man and The Unaccounted: a Triptych). Hence Mapa Teatro’s interest in the creative processes and events “in vivo”; in the translation and transposition of writings and scenic scores; and in the operation of putting together documentation, archives and fictions. In recent years, Mapa Teatro has focussed particularly on the production of poetic-political events through the construction of ethno-fictions and the ephemeral creation of experimental communities, Mapa Teatro generates processes of artistic investigation and research, which are developed in diverse spheres and scenarios of a Colombian reality. They are laboratories of social imagination.

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EXXXTRAÑAS AMAZONAS

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Concept, dramaturgy and direction: Heidi Abderhalden and Rolf Abderhalden | Director's assistants: Claudia Torres, Ariadna Morales, Santiago Sepúlveda | Performed by Linda Lucía Callejas, Charlotte Schneider, Cristal Malabert, Amada Rosa Pérez | Costume: Casa de Reinas, Ramón Guevara | Make-up: Anibal Arias Osuna | Set design, lighting and set up: Jose Ignacio Rincón | Set up assistant: Alirio García | Video inspired by and with images from Blue Demon contra las invasoras | Camera: Daniel Valencia, Lucas Maldonado | Editing: Daniel Valencia, Luis Antonio Delgado | Sound design: Raúl Platz | Photography and artistic advisory: Andrés Fresneda, Ximena Vargas | Production: Claudia Torres, Jose Ignacio Rincón, Santiago Sepúlveda

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Production in Brazil: prod.art.br | Production directors: Matthias Pees, Ricardo Muniz Fernandes | Executive producers: Jussara Rahal, Ricardo Frayha | Technical direction: Julio Cesarini

Realisation: Sesc São Paulo

Sesc Pompeia

São Paulo, SP,  Brazil

28 and 29/04/2011